Kevin Bronson on August 3rd, 2013

0

Setting aside your obsession with rock-star divorces, here are tonight’s shows:

‣ Big day on the Sunset Strip: The street fair portion of the Sunset Strip Music Festival brings Linkin Park, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Wale, AWOLNATION, Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh, Logic, Asher Roth, Street Drum Corps, Finch, Warren G., Orgy, Andy Clockwise, Terraplane Sun, Sabrosa Purr, the Active Set, Battle Tapes to stages on Sunset Boulevard.
‣ It’s Flying Lotus, Knife Party, Duck Sauce, Flux Pavilion, Kill the Noise and many more at the HARD Summer festival the Los Angeles Historic State Park. That’s Duck Sauce’s video for “It’s You” above.
‣ In downtown Long Beach there’s a new event – the Wilmore 9 Festival serves up a lineup that includes Last American Buffalo, Western Lows, Ceasefire, Batwings Catwings, Y LUV, the Aquadolls, Moostache and a bunch more.
‣ Meanwhile, it’s Diana Ross at the Hollywood Bowl.
‣ The Gipsy Kings, now marking 25 years as a band, recently announced their first new album in seven years, “Savor Flamenco” (due Sept. 10). [Check out “Samba Samba.] Tonight they headline the Greek Theatre.
‣ And if you’re in the mood for something a little more mellow, singer-songwriters Jesca Hoop and Kita Klane are among the players on the bill at the Hotel Café.

Also:

Wires in the Walls, Little Red Lung, Tic Tic Boom, Owls, Okapi Sun, Lost on Purpose and Bambi & Felix at NoHoPalooza at the Other Door
So Many Wizards, Michael Vidal, Wide Streets and Smellvetine at Pehrspace
La Tocada, Enanitos Verdes, Beto Cuevas and Vilma Palma at the Gibson Amphitheatre
Bones Muhroni, Whippoorwill and the Ransom at the Satellite
Roosevelt, Rare Times and Ghetto Blaster$ at the Bootleg Bar
Balmorhea at the Echo
Swift Technique, Soul Scratch, the Mason Affair and Pinot at the Mint
Owen, Laura Stevenson and Dresses at the Troubadour
Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts at the Viper Room
The Popdudes, Jeremy, Scarlet Crush and Sparkle*jets UK at International Pop Overthrow at Fitzgerald’s in Huntington Beach
Dwight Trible at Levitt Pavilion Pasadena
Albert Lee at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Noah & the MegaFauna, Fairbanks and more at Hot Mess Vintage (3318 W. Sunset Blvd.)
Haunted Summer at Eat See Hear in Santa Monica
The Spazmatics at Saint Rocke
Every Time I Die, Chelsea Grin, Veil of Maya, Terror, Stray From the Path, Volumes, iwrestledabearonce, For All Those Sleeping and Ice Nine Kills at the Observatory (Early Show)
Dom Kennedy at the Observatory
Pacific Dub, Daniel Marley, Sono Vero and Sinizen at the House of Blues Anaheim
Marc Seal, Ray Jordan and Chad McNeely at the Coach House
Metalmania at Shamrock’s Grill & Pub
Bob Dylan at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Elaine Faye Band and Audrey Napoleon at the Yost Theater
AC Jazz Project at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Arturo Sandoval Sextet at the Catalina Bar & Grill